be named for (someone or something)

be named for (someone or something)

To be given the same name as someone or something else. It's a bit unusual, but their daughter is named for a river in Tahiti. Their new line of electric cars was named for a famous 19th-century inventor. I was named for my grandfather on my mother's side.
See also: name
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be named after (someone or something)
  • name (someone or something) after (someone or something)
  • name (someone or something) for (someone or something)
  • name after
  • name for
  • something else
  • else
  • there was/is something about (someone or something)
  • there's something about (someone or something)
  • there's something about somebody/something